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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1942
Pressbox Ramblings By J. Donald Keown
Lieutenant Dick Amerine's recent experiences in the Solomon Islands remind many Jayhawker football fans of the days when Amerine was a star back on the Kansas squad. Without a doubt, Dick was one of the most colorful players to perform on a Kansas team in recent years. He was a scat-back likely to be thrown for a 10-yard loss, or to run through the enemy secondary for a 50-yard touchdown anytime he carried the ball. He kept the fans, as well as the opposing team, guessing. Amerine insisted on playing with his shirt tail out, and could easily be picked out on the field by the fans. Added to his fall-running ability was a talent for snagging passes which on one occasion proved disastrous to a favored Oklahoma University team, "Dazzlin'" Dick, a handsome boy, in his senior year was named by a movie queen on her all-American Glameur squad, and naturally came in for a good deal of kidding from his friends. However, he passed it off with the good-natured smile which was so characteristic of him, and settled down to the task of making Saturday afternoons miserable for Kansas opponents. Now he is cooking up more trouble for a much mightier opponent.
The Jayhawk football roster now contains 48 men. Included in that number are nine lettermen. Seven of the men hail from out of state, with three of that number being from the Kansas City, Mo., area. Lewis Musick, sophomore guard, is the greatest distance from home. He lives at Redondo Beach, Calif. Grant Hunter and Bernard Fassman are two other travelers, coming from the East. Lightest men on the team are a couple of pony backs, Harlan Altman and Kenneth Adams, both of whom训 the scale at around the 150-pound mark. Shortest men on the squad are Bill Chestnut, Milo Farneti, and John Herron. They stand 5 feet, 9 inches. Warren Hodges is the heaviest man on the team, tipping the scales at 220 pounds. Charlie Black, highly-regarded end, is the tallest man on the squad, standing 6 feet, 4 inches. The team, on the whole, is a young outfit, with 16 of the Jayhawkers not yet having reached their nineteenth birthday. Bob Githens, letterman center, is the oldest man on the team, being 24. Largest single contributing city to the roster is Lawrence, with seven men represented. Topeka and Kansas City, Kan., also are well represented on the Kansas squad.
At random—Grier Zimmerman, sophomore guard, was a hard-plunging center on the crack Wellington High School squad before coming to the University . . . Basketball players make up a large portion of the grid team this fall with Black, Dick, Evans, Hinshaw, and Schnellbacher out . . . Two major football rule changes this fall are that when both teams are offsides, the team that jumped over first is to be penalized, and that the center cannot have his feet offsides . . . Kansas coaches have their eyes on this California boy, Lewis Musick, and expect him to develop into a first-rate guard before his college career is over . . . Marquette next Saturday will meet their blood rivals, Wisconsin . . . The team to watch this fall is once again Minnesota, according to pre-season dopesters. Don't be too surprised if their contest with the powerful Iowa Cadets is not decided by the breaks . . . Marvin Vandaveer, new Haskell coach this fall, is quite pleased with his fall turnout at the Indian school, and should turn out a sturdy grid crew.
MARQUETTE ROLLS--bachelor, Paul Turner, and George Dick, ends, also gave good performances, with Schnellbacher being on the receiving end of several of Evans' passes.
(continued from page one) fense several times in the shadow of their own goal posts.
For the Kansas aggregation the bouquets went to a line which exhibited a different brand of ball from its performance last week against the brilliant Iowa Cadet Seahawks. Looking particularly good for the losers were Don Johnson, Lewis Musick, Joe Crawford, and Junius Penny. Otto Schnell-
Carl Hird, sophomore tackle, did not start the game because of an injury suffered in the Iowa Cadet game, and was replaced by Johnson. Gene Roberts, injured halfback, also was withheld from the game by Coach Gwinn Henry.
For the invaders, it was Al Klug, living up to his advance press notices, and John Harrington, tricky end, who stood out in the line. Klug, in particular, was a problem for the Jay defense as he repeatedly broke through to rush passers and punters, and nail ball-garriers for losses.
Three of the Jayhawk starters saw 60-minute duty, as Henry kept Evans, Crawford, and Warren Hodges in the lineup throughout the game. Harlan Altman and Johnson also saw action throughout all but the last two minutes of the game.
The Kansas squad got in a hole soon after the opening kick-off, as Evans got off a poor kick and Tom Stidham's men took over on the Kansas 37-yard line However, a pass
JOE CRAWFORD interception by Evans brought the Jays out of
Royal Lohry, ace Iowa State back,
was almost the whole show Friday
night as he and his Cyclone mates
defeated Denver University 7 to 0.
Lohry intercepted a pass to put the
ball in scoring position, and then
carried it over for the only touch-
town of the game. Denver will be
the next opponent of the Kansas
squad.
Royal Lohry
Faculty Class To Meet This Week
Students are not the only University men who are being considered y the department of physical education in its new emphasis on physical conditioning, Dr. Forrest C. Allen, department chairman, said today.
Beginning next Thursday, a class will be held for faculty men twice a week, he explained. The class will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week at 4:30 p.m.
Sports to be featured will be volley ball, gymnastics, and other sports desired by the faculty men which are permitted by the limited space in Robinson gym, where the class will meet.
Dr. Allen stated that while the physical education department is tremendously burdened by the heavy program this year, it was felt that the faculty should not be left completely out of the picture.
A similar program has been sponsored by the department in the past but met with only a moderate response on the part of the faculty men. However, Allen said, with the entire University physical conditioning conscious, tremendous interest has been shown by faculty men already this fall in such a program.
The new faculty dressing room, completed last year, will be utilized for the class.
trouble's range temporarily. After Evans punt had been returned back into Kansas territory by Strzyalkski, the flashy halfback then reeled off a first down to the Kansas 36-yard line. A 15-yard penalty set off a first down to the Kansas 36-yard line. A 15-yard penalty set Tom Stidham's charges back, however, and shortly thereafter Evans intercepted his second Marquette pass, running it back almost to mid-field.
The Jay's running attack was stopped cold by the Avalanche line, and Marquette again regained the ball after Evans had punted. Stryzkalski proceeded to get off a quick kick that was down on the Kansas 15-yard line. Evans, attempting to punt out of danger, got off an-
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First Basketball Practice Called
The first Jayhawk basketball practice of the year will be held next Thursday afternoon at 3:30 in Robinson gym, Dr. Forrest C. Allen, coach, announced today.
A squad of 35 men is expected to report for the sport this winter. However, several of the men are at present candidates for positions on the football team, and will not be available for the until after the
the cage game until after the completion of the football season.
The practice session will be held on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons throughout the month of October. On November 1, daily practice sessions will begin.
Allen stated that it might be necessary later on to transfer the basketball practice time to the evening, so that the gym will be available to physical conditioning classes and service men in the afternoons.
"This year varsity sports come second to national needs," the coach said.
Allen stated that the basketball practices will begin each afternoon with calisthenic, in keeping with the recommendations of the federal government. "We feel that basketball is just another way of preparing our students for the bigger game ahead," commented the physical education director.
Biggest source of worry to Allen at present is the early opening date of the Jayhawk cage schedule. The Kansas quintet is scheduled to open its season on December 5 in Kansas City against Jack Gardner's Gardner, Kan., Naval Aviation school. The game will be part of gala sports activities on that day in Kansas City. Also scheduled is a football game between the Missouri Tigers and the Iowa Cadet Seahawks in the afternoon.
Early Opening Date
Gardner, former Kansas State coach, has stars from colleges throughout the nation available for his quintet, Allen stated.
Also scheduled for an early season tilt is Creighton University, one of the topnotch squads in the Middle-West last winter. Creighton is expected to have practically all of its regulars back from the team which last year rated as one of the best in the nation.
To New York
The Jayhawk schedule this winter calls for several contests with service teams, and for a trip to New York City, where the Kansas cagers will clash with the Fordham five. While in the East, Allen's charges will also meet St. Bonaventure at Buffalo.
The schedule calls for 24 games this year, with nine of them to be played on the Kansas court. Home opponents, in addition to Big Six teams, will be Iowa University's Big Ten outfit, the Gardner Naval school, Oklahoma A & M, and Creighton. Other service teams to be met are the Great Lakes Naval Training school and the Iowa Pre-Flight school. Both games are to be played at Kansas City.
The first home game of the year will bring the University of Iowa here on December 21.
Team prospects this year, Allen admits, are better than fair, with 12 of 18 lettermen returning from last year's team. In addition, a group of promising sophomores are scheduled to give the veterans a run for first string berths.
Heading the list of sophomores is expected to be Otto Schnellbacher, big center. Close on his heels will be Hoyt Baker, Bill Brill, Armand Dixon, Bill Forsyth, Curt Hinshaw, Harold McSpadden, Junius Penny, John Short, Larry Stream, and a number of other promising first year men.
Ray Evans, Charlie Black, John Buescher, and Marvin Sollenberger, all first string man last year, will provide the experience for the starting lineup. Paul Turner and Jack Ballard will also make strong bids for starting positions.
"Of course, we hope to have a fighting basketball team," continued Dr. Allen, "but all the adjectives that heretofore have been used to describe athletic teams will now be used to describe the fighting heart of our boys in the thousands of battle areas where our K.U. boys will be found."
Said Dr. Allen in a statement issued to basketball squad candidates: "Frankly, I am not interested in athletics for their own sake at this time, but rather I am hoping that they can be the means of developing a finer sense of obligation to duty."
Vance Hall Lost
Lost from last year's squad, however, is Vance Hall, flashy forward, who has not enrolled in the University this fall. Hall is taking a Civilian Pilot Training course at present.
The coach stated flatly that men overweight will not be accepted by the squad, until they have overcome
Jim Roderick, prevented from competing last year by ill health, is expected to report Thursday, and is highly regarded by Allen.
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